I guess some advice I can give to those wanting to get into software development, get involved on open source projects on Github. If you really enjoy coding then getting pull requests accepted to projects would be seriously impressive to an employer and put you ahead of many other applicants.

Yep. I want to get into the construction industry in the office side of things as ive done my cert 4 and diploma in building and construction. I may not have construction experience but I do have 13 years of manafacturing experience and 2 years of of 2 of the 13 years were managerial type roles.

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Less training
Less likely to be a Newstart/Centrelink requirement application
More likely they are actually capable
They know what the shit bits of the job are and are prepared to do it
Less likely to leave quickly and make employer go through the re-hire process
Less likely to injure themselves then end up on WorkCover
May be able to show the current batch of numptys how to do it better
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We're just taken one on (who is now leaving) and it's cost us thousands in my time and my colleagues time spent on holding his hand.

The benefit of a graduate though is they haven't developed bad habits that you need to un-train!

KA banned me because he wilfully misconstrued sarcasm as homophobia, an assertion that pv4 then repeated after the offending post was deleted so there was no chance of anyone seeing the evidence for themselves.

Then I got busy with work and a new venture in India. Now I'm back in Australia and just wound up a contract I have a bit of time off, but nothing really interesting is happening on the boards so I'm only checking every few days.

Oh, and all the multis I use as well, I guess.

You change the job title of every job you ever had to Customer Service. If you had to deal with people, it's Customer Service. Alot of the time it will get you a look in.

I should do that. :lol:

WGMG: This may sound like a sob story but here goes. I havent slept more than 4 hours a night in over a month. My weight is yo-yo ing.. my friends call me out but i dont go. Im finding less and less motivation to finish my studies. Ive applied for no less than 20 jobs and only got an interview out of 2. I have friends who havent done a lick of hard work there whole life and have way more to show than i do. Which leads me to ask whats wrong with me why dont i get those opportunities/luck.

My father constantly compares me to other people and how they acheieved so much. Although happy to have a job and some form of income ive been with the same company for the better part of 8 years and have had no advancement or reward despitedespite great reviews from former manager/customers. Again i guess the question what the hell do i need do to to get something going my way.

Im stuck in a rut and horrible routine i cant get out of and the end is no where in sight.

WGMG: Women (sometimes)

So I asked a girl out at uni, she said yes and gave me her number. I said "I'll text you later" and we walked away.

So later that night, I texted her and said "Hey, you free on Friday?". Then she turns around and says "Sorry I'd like to focus on my studies, can we wait till after exams?"

I then try to get a conversation going, yet she responds once every 2 hours with one sentence reply's.

This isn't a sob story or anything, I'm just curious why some people would say yes then refuse all subsequent advances. Just say no the first time ffs.

Stroking her own ego?

I'm not in the same field but out of curiosity what would you be looking for in a recent graduate?

Wgmg: long story short. I feel overwhelmed, not valued, working a job i dont want to do but have to do to provide for my family.My depression is making this all worse.

WGMG: Well done Cincinnati zoo, you killed an amazing and critically endangered Gorilla because some neglectful parent allowed their idiot child to fall into the enclosure.

What a sad state of affairs when we value the life of a stupid human over one of the earth's most impressive species.

I'm not an animal scientist but something tells me that if a gorilla of that size wanted to kill the boy, he'd have done so.

Natural selection people. This sickens me as much as killing two lions because some arsehole wanted to commit suicide.

Let nature take it's course, fuck humans.

Natural selection? The kid was 4. I'd agree with you if it was the parent who fell into the enclosure but the 4 year old didn't deserve to (potentially) die/be seriously injured because his mother failed to appropriately care for him.



Edited by jlm8695: 30/5/2016 10:57:05 AM

I have a massive problem with shooting an endangered gorilla to save a human child. Why is a human life more important than a gorillas?

I don't know how kid got through the fence. I also think the parents should have to pay to import a replacement gorilla (or 20) to the zoo. Their shithouse parenting resulted in the death of the gorilla which was totally avoidable.

An avoidable animal death is most of the time going to be much easier to live with than the avoidable death of a child. It's selfish human nature.

Fwiw I don't think the animal was going to harm the kid and I believe the parents should face the same charges they would as if they killed the gorilla themselves.

Exactly and I hate that a human life is valued more than an animals, even worse when it's such a rare animal like a silverback gorilla. It makes me sick.

It's horrible when animals are killed for being animals i.e. sharks hunted when they bite someone. Like ffs, if you swim in a shark habitat, expect sharks to bite people.

Humans are the worst.

Cincinnati zoo couldn't have just shot it with tranquillizer guns, rescued the kid, and let the gorilla wake up an hour later with a gorilla's equivalent of a raging hangover?

So im assuming if your dumb child got in there that you would be OK with the gorilla rag dolling them.

Of course a human life is worth more than anything else, having said that, in that particular instance all options should be looked at but there really isn't much time.
I hope you don't mow your own lawns , do you know how many insects you kill?

That was my first thought, but how quick do the tranquilizers work? If its too long you may just end up having a confused gorilla causing more problems

They said that tranquilizers may not have kicked in fast enough and would have irritated/angered the animal.

My kid would never be allowed to get into such a position.

How is human life more valuable? That's some christian nonsense about how we're god's chosen and fuck everything else right? Pathetic.

Equally pathetic, red herrings......

Absolute bullshit... it takes 2 seconds to lose sight of a child. Live in the real world mate.

Its not a fuck everything else mentality it. Common sense says you do whatever it takes to save the child no matter how they got there.

What the fuck do Christians have to do with this? Flog.

A 38 year old enclosure that's never been breached. Yeh, 2 seconds. What a fucking joke. Neglectful parenting. Brat kid. Facts live in the real world.

Common sense? Do you honestly think if the gorilla was threatened by the child he'd be gentle with him? All reports everywhere indicate the gorilla showed no signs of aggression towards the child. Zoo staff over-reacting and placating the ignorant plebs of today by killing a critically endangered species of gorilla behaving normally.

Christians believe we're superior. The idiot at work said the same thing at work that humans are more important than animals.

Shit mentality.

Tbf the gorilla was dragging the kid around like he was a toy, I wouldn't call that gentle.

Heres one for the culture of outrage

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The comments- "Still not white" :lol:

Come back to me when that gorilla can build aircraft, write incredible literature or the other millions of things we can accomplish that these other animals can't do. That would claim superiority. That again doesn't say we can do whatever we want but again in this situation a small innocent child that made a mistake is in danger... that kid that you, 2 minutes earlier may have spoken to... you want him to Potentially die... and quite possibly slowly and painfully.

Instead of writing another scathing post i'm just going to let this go.